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JOSEPI'I W. GARDNER, OF SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS. Letters Patent IVO. 62,626, dated llfarct 5, 1867.

IMPROVED MODE 0F ATTAGHING HANDLESVIO TABLE GUTLERY.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. GnRDNER, of Shelburne Falls, in the county of Franklin, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful imprevem ent in the Manner of Attaching Handles to Knives, Forks, or other Cutlery; and I do hereby declare the Vfollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the manner of doing the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents theappearance of a fork before the handle is fastened in or to it.

Figure 2 represents theffork after the handle is secured to it; and

Figure 3 represents a section through the handle'of the fork, showing the union between the metal and thc material of which the handle is made, as, for instance, bone, ivory, pearl, or any imitations of the same, or of wood or other material used for such purposes. i

My inventionl consists in forming an opening in the tang or after part of the knife, fork, or other similar thing, into which a groovcd handle of any suitable material is placed, and then compressing or condensing the metal into the groove in the handle by any suitable machinery, thus dispensing with all riveting or fastening by additional pieces of metal, as heretofore done.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

The fork, or other piece ofcutlery, may he made of any of the usual well-known forms and metals, and thc portion usually termed the tang has an epeningfA, formed in it of an oblong, oval, or other suitable form, so as to leave a continuous metal margin, a, around said opening. The tang or after portion of the fork or knife is then placed in a press or under a drop-dic, and the inner margin c of the rim a is pinched or struck down to a bevelled edge, as shown in fig. 3. The handle B, of hone, ivory, pearl, or any other material of which thc handles of cutlery are formed, and of an outline corresponding to that of the tang or rear portion or of the opening therein, and groored to receive the bevellcd edges of the rim, is then placed in said opening A, and thc Whole placed between a pair of dies, and by means of a screw or other press, the steel or metal of which the fork or the tane` is made is compressed or condensed into the groove in the handle, as shown at fig. 3, and thus making a perfectly secure conncctionibetween thetang and handle without clinching or riveting, and without4 necessarily using any other piece of metal than that of the tang itself. I thus produce aknife or fork or other piece of cutlery or surgical or dental instruments, with a solid handle secured thereto by a metal rim in one piece, and that piece a part or parcel of the blade or fork, without rivets, caps, or any third piece, and simply by condensing the rim of the metal into a' groove cut around the handle. Andby thus securing handles to blades, forks, or other instruments, I not only make a better and more endurahle article, but a cheaper and ncater construction .than heretofore made.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letter Patent, is Securing handles to forks, knives, or other instruments, by condensing the metal portion of such article in agroovc formed in the handle, 'substantiallyin the manner herein described and represented.

JOSEPH W. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

F. A. BALL, 0 H. O. SMITH. 

